This is a first. We are all finding out how a banana republic works.
Ditto and shame on him especially since it had nothing to do with the movie and more to do with a coordinated 9-11 event with the movie a throwaway to their sheepies.
....more like Odumbo leaned on him to do something...doubt that he’d do it of his own initiative..
It’s pretty clear this military is intimidated by Muslims. What a bummer when your own generals are afraid of the enemy..
We’ve had a lot of duds at the JCS level—General Shalikashvalli during the Clinton years comes immediately to mind—but Dempsey may be the worst. The man is absolutely feckless; first, he cautions vets and military retirees from exercising their First Amendment rights; now he calls that nut-job pastor to express concern about the anti-Muslim “film.”
Dempsey is clearly nothing more than a political hack. When Axelrod and others determined that the Middle East crisis must be blamed on Mitt Romney and that so-called film, Martin Dempsey couldn’t wait to do his part for Team Obama. So, he phones a private citizen to express his concerns about that individual exercising his own right to free speech. Does General Dempsey have a problem with the Constitution?
I have no regard for Pastor Jones. Watching his past antics, it’s clear that he’s in it for the publicity and whatever added contributions it will mean for his church. But whatever his motive, Jones has a right to express his thoughts, no matter what the Muslim world may think.
It’s now abundantly clear why Dempsey got the JCS job. He’s a useful idiot that will do Zero’s bidding, with little thought for what it means, in terms of our individual liberties. Maybe the “Darlington scenario” (outlined in a recent military journal) isn’t so far-fetched after all.
Memo to Gen Dempsey: your soldiers face greater danger from the policies of your commander-in-chief than they ever will from a publicity-hungry pastor and his film-making buddies.
Obama is reason for the debacle in the Middle East. It’s sad to see a four-star general, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, so willing to cover for him.